About Us

REACH East is a non-profit organization whose mission is to offer homeschooling information and support to the Eastside community from a Christian worldview. REACH stands for Responsible Education Achieved in the Christian Home.

REACH East serves the East King County area of Washington state. Membership entitles you to meeting attendance and participation in activities and field trips organized by REACH East.

Goals

to present homeschooling as a viable and positive educational alternative

to help equip and support homeschooling parents

to provide networking opportunities with other homeschooling families

to glorify God in all its activities (1 Cor 10:31)

Membership

Membership is open to families and individuals who have completed a membership application, paid the annual membership dues and are approved by the REACH East Board of Trustees. Prospective members are not required to agree with REACH East’s Statement of Faith but must acknowledge that they have read the Statement of Faith and will support REACH East as it adheres to and lives out those tenets of faith.

You can fill out the application form on-line and pay the membership fee using PayPal. Click here to join now!

If you prefer, a printable membership application is also available here. You can print it, fill it out, and send it with a check for the membership dues to:

REACH East
P.O. Box 40127
Bellevue, WA 98015

Leadership

REACH East is managed by a board of trustees, each of whom are homeschooling parents by law who agree with the REACH East Statement of Faith and are members in good standing. Trustees are elected at the May membership meeting and serve for one year terms.

Speakers at REACH East monthly meetings must agree with the REACH East Statement of Faith.

Website

This website is a communication tool for members of the REACH East support group. With it we can post announcements, be reminded of upcoming events on the calendar, and access important documents and forms. After joining REACH East, you will be contacted by one of the REACH East members with more information about accessing this website. Please respect our membership by using discretion in passing along any information from this website to non-members.

If you want more information about REACH East before joining, please contact us.

Board Members

President - Kim Sheridan

Secretary - Julie Lang

Treasurer - Mige Wang

Activities Trustee - Deanna Mikiska

Statement of Faith

1. We believe that the 66 books of the Holy Bible are the only inspired, infallible, authoritative Word of God.

2. We believe that the Bible as originally given is without error and constitutes the complete and final revelation of God's Word.

3. We believe in one God, eternally existent in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

4. We believe that man was originally created in the image of God, but through Adam sin entered the world. Because of sin man is separated from God and eternally lost.

5. We believe in the Deity and Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, who through His death on the Cross has atoned for the sins of the world.

6. We believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, which insures the resurrection of all believers who have personally received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

7. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells all who receive Jesus Christ and is responsible for the continuing work of sanctification in the believer.

8. We believe in the spiritual unity of all who believe in Jesus Christ and that believers are called to be in the world but separate from it.

9. We believe that Christians are called to witness for Christ, to preach the message of salvation to all nations, and to study the Bible personally through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit so that each on may be equipped to carry out God's purpose in his life.

10. We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God (Gen 1:26-27). Rejection of one's biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person.

11. We believe that the term "marriage" has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture (Gen 2:18-25). We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other (I Cor 6:18; 7:2-5; Heb 13:4).

12. This statement of faith does not exhaust the extent of our beliefs. The Bible itself as the inspired, infallible and authoritative Word of God is the sole and final source of all that we believe.